Following the designations announced 18 February (see our recent post), the UK has designated 5 further individuals under the Myanmar/Burma sanctions regime:

  • Tin Aung San
  • Maung Maung Kyaw
  • Aung Lin Dwe
  • Moe Myint Tun
  • Ye Win Oo

The UK has also updated the listing details for Min Aung Hlaing (previously designated, and remaining subject to asset freeze measures). In addition, the existing designation for Bi Sidi Souleman under the UK’s Central African Republic sanctions regime has also been amended.

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Ross Evans is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's Competition, Trade and Foreign Investment Department in London. He is a highly regarded advisor on sanctions, export controls, and foreign investment and national security laws, with particularly deep expertise in the technology, media and telecoms sector, and in relation to cryptography and cybersecurity, data infrastructure, AI, and key advanced and emerging technologies.